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Sailor is my favourite ink maker (ex-aeque with J. Herbin). Sadly their most interesting inks are available only in Japan or from internet retailers. There are few japanese shops famous for their wide and interesting range of Sailor inks. One of most well-known is Bung Box. A lot of people were taken by interesting bottles and intriguing colors. It seems however that recently many ink enthusiasts started to shy away from this line since Bung Box inks became much more bitterly expensive than other Sailor inks. The line consists of quite a few colors. My list is incomplete and most of the names aren't translated well. If you have full list of BB inks and/or could help me with correcting english names, help me sort this out 4B Blue/Black BB Espresso Dandyism Ebisu Gold Emerald Enshu Black First Love Sapphire Fresh Oranges of Lake Hamana Fuyiyama Blue Hamanako Eel Imperial Purple Ink of the Witch L’Amant Luminous Green Melancholic Gray Mocha Music Black Nostalgia Oamezaki Sunset Omaezaki Ocean Omaezaki Blue Orange Pink Ruby Sapphire Silent Night Soleil Tears of Clown Tortoise Shell Brown Before I write few words about the ink allow me to start by saying thank you mmg122 for sending me samples of different inks. It seems Ebisu Gold isn't amazingly popular. After trying it, I'm not really surprised. It's not good ink. It's not terribly bad either. The main issue I have with this ink is the fact it lacks saturation and lubrication. It felt somewhat dry in Lamy fine nib. Using it was rather unplesant. I do believe that in very wet pens the line may appear richer. In this particular pens/nibs combos though this ink was dissapointing. Drops of ink on kitchen towel Software ID Color range Rhodia, Lamy AL-Star, broad nib Leuchtturm1917, Lamy AL-Star, fine nib Tsubame, Lamy AL-Star, medium nib Water resistance